The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-11-25

man anu OOy OF winch was nuuicr)
by playing at once and without the
least hesitation every tune that was
called for by anybody whomsoever.
Mr.. Martin having danced himself
tired, and Sect Dairy having danced
himself tired, first Major ellis. with
his head bound up in the red silk BAN
danna, ambled out into the floor, and
then Judge Banks and Lawyer Gc-uns
and Sy Speed and Lun Sparks and Bill
Shipley and l don't know who all.
Joined in very timber. half-drunken
dance full of grotesquely funny gest-
ures. among which the browning one
was the frequently repeated trick in
which the very tall and timber Judge
Banks seized his right foot in his left
hand, and. holding it up quite high
enough, swung it solemnly and slowly
over the erect bandana-bOund head of
the short and ''heavy sot'' Major
ellis amid wild peals of applauding
laughter.
Finally one of the foreign clientele
of the Sandtown circuit court got into
a wrangle with Little Bill bikes, and
out of respect for the court and bar,
probably. and certainly in obedience
to the stern declaration of old Bogus
Leatherwood, that "they haint gut to
be no furse'n nur fightun in this house,
men! Ur by gum! he'd take ham
hissefr' the whole crowd went pouring
out near the middle of bright NOON
light night, down to a smooth grassy
plat on the river bank, and divided
from the water by one of the parallels
of gold-twig willows that lay like a
long gray plume blown up against the
eastern bank by the soft, steady west
wind.
The court and bar appearing in their
unofficial capacity as mere citizens of
prominence and influence, entered
promptly and methodically into the ar
rangement of the proper preliminaries
established by customary usage in the
Sandtown circuit.
"Seef Dairy! You sarch UNI both, un
see they hain't gut no weepuns un UNI!
You h-yur me?" said the Judge, in a
voice of authority. The blacksmith
Sheriff promptly acquitted himself of
this task. The men stripped to their
waists, stepped out and struck at each
other suddenly and viciously. Then
followed desperate struggle, out of
which Little Bill called presently in q
harsh shrill tone:
Hes cutten me with a knife! Jim.
Joe! H-yur! Quick!'
In an instant three man sprang at
the two--one of them leaping with such
terrible vigor that he actually bounded
over the heads of the two combatants
tall men though both OF them were.
Then arose . hoarsc agonized cry from
the other man.
take UNI Off Take UNI of! They're
stobbun me! There"
There was II rush forward of all the
crowd. But the loud voice of Bill bikes
sounded threateningly:
Stand back. men! He ort to be
killed. Stand back! Let UNI finish i'm"
And the crowd swayed back again
before the drawn knives of the bikes,
revealing to my Mortified gaze the for
eign client down upon his back and
two of the bikes STOPPING down to
make sure that their keen knives
should 90 straight to his heart.
But bursting out of the jimson
jungle and with a growl that '.fairly
riz my hair offun my scalp" as Seef
Dairy afterward told it-old Bogus
Leathcrwood crashed through the
crowd as buffalo bull might have
crashed through this slender plume of
gold-twig willows in mad race to
quench a long and parching thirst.
What he did, or what he said, no.
body knew exactly, so far as the immi-
nent Peril of the client was concerned.
However, when the crowd, includ-
ing the court and the bar and the rival
physicians. had gotten little way up
the road toward the tavern, Buck and
/. who had fingered little. heard old
Bogus Leatherwood saying to the four
Dikeses:
LAS if you wasn't libul at any min
ute to have some tightun to do that's
with someth'n'. Fightun at you'd be
oblceged to do"
And then continuous deep bass
growl, accompanied by sundry violent
gestures with clenched hands that
would have broken mans ribs, each